在美国和加拿大，晋升以及工资都有赖于研究人员论文的发表情况。美国专家还认为，基金评委也应用这种定量的文献计量学工具（即SCI影响因子），因为它提供了一个客观的、可行的方法评价基金申请者的研究成果。著名的加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）也非常看重影响因子的评价功能。2013年旧金山宣言（San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment）提倡不再使用影响因子作为评价个人学术贡献的工具（说明以前在使用）。

（1）Incentives for faculty to publish have a longhistory in the United States and Canada. Promotion and tenure, as well ascompensation, depend to a considerable extent on a faculty member's publicationrecord [1].

（2）quantitativebibliometric tools seem to offer an objective, measurable way to ascertainresearcher performance[2].

（3）According to Blake Gurfein in University of California, San Francisco, “my institution(UCSF) also emphasizes the JCR impact factor.

（4）IF for academicappointments and funding is more important in Europe than in North America.More than 50% of anesthesiologists agree that IF needs to be improved[3].

（5）The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessmentpublished in 2013 advises that we should no longer use "journal-basedmetrics, such as journal impact factors, as a surrogate measure of the qualityof individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions,or in hiring, promotion or funding decisions." (See attachment).)[4].

2、巴西

巴西建立了基于个人SCI论文平均影响因子的““Qualis” scale”量表，用于评价本国学生和教职员工。

Brazil has established a“Qualis” scale based on the average impact factor of their publications, whichis used to grade students and faculty[6].

（2）When the impact factor was introduced into theUK research assessment exercise (which compares the quality of research indifferent universities), one medical school dean wrote to all academicsinstructing them not to submit papers to any publication with an impact factorof less than seven (personal communication)[7].

（2）He reveals that in the UK, some universityadministrators multiply the number of articles by the IF of the journal, anduse this as a criterion for promotion. He also reports that administrators ofthe Institute of Nuclear Physics at UniversityCollege, London asked that IF for each academic staffmember be reported. Eston (2004) observes that although the United Kingdom's(UK) Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2008 would be guided by IF alone, IFwould unlikely be used to assess the quality of research[8].

（1）Germany and Spainmade reforms in the mechanisms that regulate access to university careers,promotion, and salary, linking them more tightly to international publications.In Germany, reforms were made that allow universities to link salaries toresearch performance[9].

（2）In Germany, Abbasi (2004) explains that “theChief specialist is one notch below God or one notch above, with junior staffpromoted on a whim or shunted to a deadend post in a flash of irritation.”[8]

（3）The Association of the Scientific MedicalSocieties in Germany (AWMF) also uses its recommendations to evaluatescientific achievement on the basis of the IF[10].

In Spain, the same practice obtains as in the UK (Abbasi2004)[8].Spainmade reforms in the mechanisms that regulate access to university careers,promotion, and salary, linking them more tightly to international publications.In Spain, a national agency was put in place to assess the performance of youngrecruits and to decide tenure and promotions[9].

6、挪威，比利时，丹麦

挪威，比利时，丹麦在过去十年中开始了类似德国和西班牙的政策来分配研究经费[9]。

Norway, Belgium, Denmark, and Italy startedsimilar policies during the past decade for allocating a share of the budget[9].

7、意大利

在意大利，相对可观的SCI影响因子被用于改善容易受“主观”影响的学术地位的认定。

In Italy, IF is advocated as a means to remedy“purported subjectivity and bias in appointments to higher academic positions.”[8]

Australia and New Zealand drew on the RAE toput in place policy reforms for funding academic institutions wherebybetter-performing institutions receive more funding than lower-performing onesand, thus, have more resources to compete in the job market for scientists[9].

（2）In Japan, theimpact factor is quite important. Your status in the ?eld is dependent on howmany reports you have published in high impact factor journals. Moreover, incases when the journal is not listed on PubMed, the journal is looked downupon. (Japanese scientist interviewed by Roland, Frass, and Bernhard, 2002)[12]

（3）In Japan,promotion is aided by applicants listing journal IF beside the references intheir citation list. It has been observed that IF is hindering advancement inJapan'sacademia for good clinicians with little basic science research experience(Abbasi 2004). Appointment committees at their universities are often heavilyinfluenced by journal IF (Cameron 2005)[8].

（4）This year animpact factor has been assigned to the of?cial English journal of the JapanSociety of Ultrasonics in Medicine. We are delighted that our journal can beinternationally recognized as important one in this academic ?eld[13].

In some developing countries, publishing in top-tier journalshas extra appeal; researchers in China and India sometimes receive bonuses orsalary increases when they get papers into Science or Nature[5].

12、韩国

韩国政府2006年规定：以第一和通讯作者的身份在重要期刊上发表论文能得到3000, 000韩元（约2800美元）。

SouthKorea would be rewarding researchers $3,000 for publishing papers in 'elite'journals [9].

13、新加坡

在新加坡，医学院管理者都采用SCI影响因子作为评价其各部门的学术生产力的重要工具。

In Singapore, medical school deans and administratorshave adopted IF as a measure of quality of the academic efforts of individualsfaculty and the academic productivity of medical school departments, althoughthere are already serious questions about the validity of the use of IF forthese purposes (Rogers 2003)[8].

14、巴基斯坦

在巴基斯坦，科学家们在他们的年度累积SCI影响因子的基础上获得奖金，数额在1,000至20,000美元之间不等。

In Pakistan scientists can receive between 20,000 on the basis of their annual cumulative impact factors[14].

15、马来西亚

马来西亚科研机构对SCI影响因子极为热衷，工作及报酬都有赖于SCI影响因子。

According to Munvar Shaik in University of ScienceMalaysia,“Why the scientific community is so crazy about Impact Factors (IF)? Thegrants, the scientific jobs everything now rely on IF”, he said in ResearchGate[15].